Roots Quotes

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. — Robert Burns
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons
The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any. — Stuart Wilde
There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. — Marion Milner
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,… — Leigh Hunt
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy… — Judith Orloff
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the… — Rajneesh
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of… — Paul Cezanne
A good parent gives their child roots and wings. — Jonas Salk
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil. — Henry Ward Beecher
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's… — Elizabeth Drew
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to… — Michelle Obama
Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each… — Ravi Zacharias
A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards… — Ming-Dao Deng
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share… — T. Harv Eker
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first… — T. Harv Eker
In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing… — T. Harv Eker
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both… — Stephen Covey
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser

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